The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-04
A WELCOME BREAK.

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George William Curtis and his Civil
Service Reform League have practically
broken with the President. The mat
! ter is stated in our dispatches this
t morning, wherein is given a synopsis
} OF speech delivered by Mr.. Curtis at
the annual meeting at Newport, the
2 sentiments in which speech were ap-
f proved and adopted by the League.
The League is made up almost exclu-
sively Of discontented Republicans, men
who assume more virtue than Others
profess, and who boast higher degree
of political honesty. They are what
are popularity known as Mugwumps.
and they would like to have politics
without parties, and destroy par
tizanship ia public administra-
ton, two things utterly i'm
possible of achievement in a
republic builded upon the theory and
idea of parties, and contemplating par
ti-anship in its organic law and in its
statutes. When We are without oppos-
ing political parties and there is nothing
partisan in administrative Office, will be
when all men agree and there is perfect
harmony of sentiment throughout the
republic. The time will never come to
these United States.
Mr.. Curtis and his Lam holier- than
thou associates have assumed to die
tate to Mr.. Cleveland in the matter of
the civil service. Because they voted
for him in preference to the noted cor
ruptionist Blaine, they have acted as if
he were their President and it
would be imprudent, and dangerous
for Democrats to assert any claim on
the President they had elected. Unfor-
tunately Mr.. Cleveland, either because
be was Mugwump at heart, or feared
to incur the hostility of Mr.. Curtis |
League, snubbed his own party and
yielded to the influence of the Mug-'i
wumps until he came near bringing dis
union into the Democratic camp, and |
being cast overheard by the great Dem !
ocratic masses who had intrusted him
with the administration. Having seen
the approach of the disaster which he
was bringing on himself and the party,
latterly he has shown disposition 10
occupy the position to which he was
elected; that is to say, to be
q Democratic President, to give
the country a Democratic admins
tration by Democratic officials. Be-
cause OF this he has incurred the dis
pleasure of the Mugwumps, who have
withdrawn their allegiance,
and are squaring themselves to sup
port another candidate next year.
AS remarked, Democrats will be hear
lily glad of this, for it will restore their
confidence in Cleveland, and give them
courage to re-elect him. They will feel
hat in working for him they are work
ng for Democrat, and not for a man
who will stand in with handful of NAL.
contents to the disregard of the voting
masses. When the people declared in
1884 that the rascals should be turned
'ut, they not only. meant it.
'dt they also meant that Democrats
should be installed. George William
Curtis did not agree with these de-
hands, and it took Mr.. Cleveland a
ong time to fully understand that the
people meant what they said by their
'auots. If he has at last been brought
o realization of the past, so much the
letter for him and the Democracy, and |
o much the worse for the political
ondescripts who train under the
dugwump banner. Mr.. Cleveland will
e stronger the nearer he approaches y
0 harmony with the Democratic mas. :,
es. He may aliniate the little squad of
igh-toned politicians who are too purs
or this age. but he will gain more than
e will lose. A united Democratic 4
arty under the leadershipIof Grover
leveland free from unnatural alliances
ill be inyincible at the polls next
ear. If the cord tyicg Cleveland to =
lie Curtis crowd has not been severed
y the action OF the Newport meeting IN
emocrats will hope that 1t NAV be cnt 3
)mpletely, in order that as in tbs $500
hicago Convention they may still love <.
leir standard-bearer for the g, emies \
e has made. '